Right or Left Brain
This is an interesting test. If you see silhouette rotating clockwise, you are right brained, if you see it rotating counter clockwise, you are left brained. If you can make the image switch directions, you are a part of a small minority of the population that can see a situation differently depending on the situation.
In case you are wondering, at first I saw the girl rotation clockwise, but after a little practice, I found I could make her rotate either direction almost at will. My brain still seems to gravitate to clockwise though.
posted by Joel Maners @ 3/25/2008 10:02:00 AM
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It switched on me -- first counter, then clock-wise. Hmmm.
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Come On! The girl is not rotating, you guys are just having fun with me right?
Totally clockwise.
Peace.
not sure this really has anything to do with being right or left brained...but interesting. originally I thought it was moving clockwise. But after looking can see it the other way more. Here is a link to someone who hacked the image.
http://ofb.net/~whuang/imgs/spin/
the dancer was originally spinning counter-clockwise.
My question is can you mentally put clothes on her?
"My question is can you mentally put clothes on her?"
Heh! I knew it was just a matter of time before someone brought that up.
I want to know how she jumps up and down without bending anything. and why doesn’t anything bounce? It is like a solid or is the floor falling away and coming back up to the figure? . . . Oh what way is it rotating? Clockwise always clockwise no change no change it always goes clockwise. Which way do the hurricanes spin on your side of the equator? And did you know that it is a fact that the drain can go down either way because it is such a small body of water that it is unaffected by the rotation of the earth. Unlike hurricanes that never are on the equator. (Looks like someone I know. I want to wrap a big towel around her.)
same here. I've seen this before and she was definitely clockwise. This time she was again, clearly, clockwise. Then i read some more sentences and loked up and OP! she was counter-clockwise. Now I can't make her go back. Funny.
I have seen this before, also, it is totally COOL! But what I discovered IS, if you look at her shadow leg, you will see her NOT spin, but go back and forth. Tell me if that happens for YOU!
There are a couple of strong but conflicting cues here. What we see probably depends on which cue gets our attention. First, all else being equal, we naturally assume that her long axis is vertical and that her outer leg is tracing a circle level with the floor, with our point of view being from about waist height. If so, we must be looking down on that circle from above, which would mean she is rotating clockwise. But there is another cue that is actually definitive. The reflection of her outer foot is visible as it moves right to left across the screen (not left to right, when it is too far forward to be in the frame), and it is describing an arc that could only be possible if she were turning counter-clockwise (notice the tip of the foot's shadow moving from rear to front as it passes its leftmost point). The creator of the movie has tilted her a little away from us, I think deliberately, so as to create the first (misleading) cue.
Skywire, I noticed something when she is at her max altitude the shadow of her extended foot looks very near to her actual same foot! Her crown appears to be nearest the viewer during the duration of the rotation as suggested by the apparent tilt of the underlying reflective plane. What’s up with that! And what about the turbulence that is suggested by the lines about her a result of some kind of a laminar flow about her as if floating in some oily fluid?
I still think it looks like my sisters doll.
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